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The world’s most travelled man has no intention of putting his feet up despite
having reached the age of 70. Fred Finn has clocked up more than 15 million
miles, visited 139 countries and even earnt a place in Guinness World
Records for the most flights taken on Concorde.

The 718 flights he made on the supersonic airliner included the return leg of
its maiden flight from Washington and its last in 2003. On one day in 1981,
he crossed the Atlantic three times. On every flight he sat in seat 9A,
having observed that it was first to be